Re:‘AI Pause’ Open Letter Stokes Fear and Controversy
by dragonwriter on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:40PM
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> You lump “gun control” and “nuclear weapons” together here but those are already two wildly different things.
And both are radically different than AI.
> It’s not “only good guys have nukes” but everyone seems to prefer “only certain governments have nukes” to “both good guys and bad guys have nukes.”
And yet, even with willingness to wage wars to contain nuclear proliferation, net proliferation continues. And that’s despite the infrastructure and materials being more obvious and less shared with diverse non-problem uses than the infrastructure and raw materials for AI. There’s no way to have an AI non-proliferation regime. It can’t be done, short of conquering the world with a single, massively authoritarian, totalitarian regime (and then, it still can’t be done, because while the first generation of leaders might be AI true believers, we know from the history of authoritarian regimes that that can’t long be guaranteed, so eventually you’ll have a global authoritarian regime with no counterbalancing force that decides to use AI for itself while keeping it out of the hands of its citizens.)
And both are radically different than AI.
> It’s not “only good guys have nukes” but everyone seems to prefer “only certain governments have nukes” to “both good guys and bad guys have nukes.”
And yet, even with willingness to wage wars to contain nuclear proliferation, net proliferation continues. And that’s despite the infrastructure and materials being more obvious and less shared with diverse non-problem uses than the infrastructure and raw materials for AI. There’s no way to have an AI non-proliferation regime. It can’t be done, short of conquering the world with a single, massively authoritarian, totalitarian regime (and then, it still can’t be done, because while the first generation of leaders might be AI true believers, we know from the history of authoritarian regimes that that can’t long be guaranteed, so eventually you’ll have a global authoritarian regime with no counterbalancing force that decides to use AI for itself while keeping it out of the hands of its citizens.)